Divorced
[dɪ'vɔrst]
Definition
(adj.) of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Divorce
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Examples
- I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One way presumably is that divorced women often become prostitutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Instead of connecting directly with present activities, it is remote, divorced from the means by which it is to be reached. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A strict divorce law would, of course, diminish the number of divorced women, and perhaps keep them out of prostitution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We in America have divorced them completely: both art and politics exist in a condition of unnatural celibacy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The unquestioned need for experts in politics is full of the very real danger that detailed preparation may give us a bureaucracy--a government by men divorced from human tradition. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She was divorced, debarred, a soul shut out. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was for a time a teacher in America, and he married and divorced an American wife. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The divorced mates, Spirit and Substance, were hard to re-unite: they greeted each other, not in an embrace, but a racking sort of struggle. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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